"Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem……" — Joseph Addison
"Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind."
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Joseph Addison
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324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison has 324 quotes on this site.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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More Cleanliness Quotes
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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid…
— Anthony Burgess
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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
— Jean Anouilh
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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap,…
— David Brooks
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
— Joseph Joubert
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Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
— Carl Van Vechten
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If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's…
— Jerry Climer
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But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more…
— Unknown Author
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I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the…
— Florence Nightingale
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The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms…
— Florence Nightingale
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Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a…
— Unknown Author
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